Upcoming book: Trump believed DNC would replace Biden with Clinton or Michelle Obama

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Yes, it's interesting how the polling for Hillary vs. McCain in some states was very different from what we saw with Obama:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ar/arkansas_mccain_vs_clinton-591.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/wv/west_virginia_mccain_vs_clinton-631.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/ky/kentucky_mccain_vs_clinton-577.html

She would have won with a slightly different coalition than Obama, but there could have been trade-offs as well, so she might have won those states at the expense of Indiana and North Carolina perhaps. There's no way of knowing.

Some of us (well, at least me) expected an Arkansas 'bounce-back' in 2016 because one of the very, very early polls showed her only a couple points behind several GOP candidates and even leading one or two of them... only for Arkansas to swing even more R.

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A lot of Trumpists had this kind of wishful thinking at the time, most of which originated from 4chan. It's really interesting to watch these talking points well up from that site to right-wing media outlets and then to the old, definitely not tech savvy Trump movement- apparently even to the president himself. /Pol/ had a lot more influence at one point than people realize.